Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6cd84a6e36a6d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 10:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 67f3dc606d1fd3364ec369f76b4f86dd SHA-1: d0503793babbf34d08807b15d1aa688579691d82 SHA-256: fa6cd84a6e36a6d83bb5200f7f2d9dd6d519b387c06d842fe2cc51e5973b937b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a screenshot lure, typical for driving clicks to external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/25338397763.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesatopapajonawofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce200f0b57e9b41a1ffd9715ee17c039/58463661126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25037817840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/14226844613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/rezoposixopuponatefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/25003703296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/gukurujaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/80864888750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/58195411819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshnaai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62986961618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f3892a58f---13203181933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153f9691a33e---68971644145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140524d1c68a---vuruvurufugesajaxafisemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a07c3501b03991cac1571480c6342977/kitegisomodisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.seminariomenorvalencia.com/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43794971857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depogidovakapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/vusuxibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accutindustry.com/Upload/files/20210927105754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodez.lt/i/File/81294852452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/nopijukewurufawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/xawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/toxavuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikajadola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/mezewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/kazava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=volume+on+cell+phone+is+lowPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A7 14368 bytes
SHA-256: cd75509238af9cf37dd57a1863b9d4fdbe54af4deae8a5afefdbbdb996f1ab9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85F 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 4e89df23dcde128a53a6c9eed95eb594f7906051494ff9f0f1c7b01fb0fd5e93
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1